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The Mission [VHS]
starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn, Cherie Lunghi
directed by: Roland Joffé

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) who establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil and then finds his work threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Robert De Niro is briefly effective as a callous soldier who kills his own brother and then turns to Irons's character to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy. The narrative and dramatic forces at work in this movie should be more stirring and powerful than they are--the problem being that Joffé is too removed from them to allow us in. --Tom Keogh

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300271203
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 630027120X
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: December 04, 1992
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 31, 1986

Customer Reviews

a great movie

This is a great movie. I saw it years ago and just recently bought it on DVD. This is based on a true story, which always makes it better in my opinion. The extra features on the two disc set are very interesting, as they document how an actual group of native peoples in South America where used in making this movie. My DVD had an error on it on the main feature about half way through the movie, and it was brand new with no scratches, so I don't know if there was a bad batch of DVDs or if it was ... Read More

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